VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-8960

low
Published 2014-11-30 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
—
CVSS v2
3.5
VIR risk
3.5

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in libraries/error_report.lib.php in the error-reporting feature in phpMyAdmin 4.1.x before 4.1.14.7 and 4.2.x before 4.2.12 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted filename.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-8960

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2014-15.php

OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed4:4.2.12-1
debian debianbullseyefixed4:4.2.12-1
debian debiansidfixed4:4.2.12-1
debian debiantrixiefixed4:4.2.12-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.0
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.2
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.3
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.4
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.5
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.6
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.7
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.8
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.9
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.10
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.11
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.12
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.13
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.14
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.14.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.14.2
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.14.3
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.14.4
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.14.5
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.14.6
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.0
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.2
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.3
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.4
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.5
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.6
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.7
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.7.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.8
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.8.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.9
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.10
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.11

References

CWEs

CWE-79

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.